Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-17
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

WASHINGTON, Feb. II.
MY DEAR SIR-In view of the near ad-
Eiournment of Congress and in order that
time may suffice for the selection and con-
tirmatiOn of my successor, / desire again
TO place my resignation of the office of
Secretary of the Treasury in your hands,
and trust You will now deem its accept
ance no detriment TO the public service.
When you requested me last June to delay
insisting upon the acceptance of my resig-
nation, rs again in our conference last Oc-
tOber, you hOnored me with such terms of
personal consideration, and expressed so
grave decision in respect to the require
mentS of the public service, that it was
impossible to question my duty rs to for
get your kindness.
have not spared myself in the endeavor
to comply with your wish, and to contrib
ute to the support of the policies which
have illustrated your administration. The
approaching end of the Forty-nnth Con-
greSs marks period in yOur own term of
Office and in the divisions of our political
calendar. If a change must occur in the
heads of departments, and at your council
board, it is clear that your personal con-
venience and the public interests are best
Subseryed, should it occur now.
Moreover, the financial situation is to
be deemed different from that which open
cd before us when the present Congress
entered upon its life and upon the uppOr-
tunities created by transfer of the peoples
trust to new hands. In this most critical
condition, the Circumspect execution of
IL wise fiscal policy or of administrative
reforms in the collection and disbursement
Of our colossal revenues. is not
alone demanded; though labors such as
these have eXactcd and exhibited the
abilities of our foremost statesmen since
the constitution of the Government. But
there is also an eXhausting round OF daily
administrative tasks, which, however,
subordinate and clerical, an efficient Secre-
tary OF the Treasury cannot, or should not
evade. These are tasks beyond my present
strength | therefore submit to your con-
siderate judgment that in asking release
by the 4th of March, or as soon as you
may select my successor, fulfill a duty
to my family that may now he permitted
to outweigh the duty of accepting longer
that assignment Of public service which
two years ago you did me the honor to
make.
Returning to the ranks of that great
party which has called you to its lead !
shall still hope to follow its fortunes under
your successful guidance with fellow
citizens loyal pride.
Very respectfully yours,
DANIEL MANNING.
THE PRESIDENTS REPLY.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, !
WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. Is, 1887. !
Hon. Daniel MdnniRG Secretary Of the
Treasury.
My DEAR SIR Your formal letter of
resignation, which have received, though
not entirely unexpected, presents the real
ity of a severance of our official relations
and causes me the deepest regret. This is
tempered only by the knowledge that the
frank and friendly personal relations
which have unbrokcnly existed between
us are to still continue | refer TO these
because such personal relations supply,
after all, whatever of comfort and pleas
ure the world affords, and speak of the
aid and support you have given me and
the assistance yOu have furnished to the
administration of the Government during
the time yOu have directed the affairs
of the eXacting and labOrious office
which you now seek to surren-
der your labOrS. Your achieve
ments, your success and your devotion to
public duty are fully seen and known, and
they challenge the appreciation and graft
tude of all your cOuntrymen. Since | must
at last relinquiSh my hope of your contin-
uance at my side rs counsellor and CO.
labOrer, and since cannot question the
reasons upon which your request TO be
relieved is based, it only remains for me
to accept the resignation you have tend
cred and to express my profound thanks
for all that you have done for me in shar-
ing manfully my labors and perpleXities
of the past two years, | feel that | may
still ask of you that the first day of April
next be fixed as the date at which your
resignation shall take effect, and you will
so regulate what remains to you of official
duty in the meantime as TO secure that
measure of freedom from vexatious labor
which you have so Justly earned.
With the earnest hope that in any path
of life you may hereafter follow there may
be allowed to you more of comfort and of
ease than the conscientious discharge of
duty here permits.
am very sincerely, your friend,
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